A few months back, when I launched The Cinema Doctor, I provided a list of my favorite media offerings of the year (thus far). Here's my first revision as we enter into the home stretch!
Batman day continues here with a short review of Batman: Arkham City (2011). I'd review some of the New 52 titles I'm reading, most notably Batman and Detective Comics, both of which I really like, but it's so early in their runs that I'm not sure what to say about them aside from great writing on both, better art by Tony Daniel on Detective. In any case, I thought Arkham City was a major step beyond its predecessor, Arkham Asylum (2009). Find out why after the jump.
I love Batman. I love Batman so much that when I finished the first draft to my dissertation - focused on the remediation of style in comics and film - I got a Batman tattoo. When I was a kid, Tim Burton's Batman (1989) and The Animated Series (1992-1995) got me into comics. When I was a teenager and moved away from comics, the Batman titles were the only ones I still kept tabs on...and then I eventually stopped reading them (there were not a lot of comic book stores in Port Washington, Wisconsin). When I got back into comics in college, after some heckling from my friends Neal and Will, I started back up with Batman. I read Batman: The Long Halloween (1996-1997) and Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth (1989) before I was handed a copy of Frank Miller and David Mazzucchelli's Batman: Year One (1987).
